We woke to a crisp morning and excitedly drove under a pink hued sky towards the snowy mountains. Our plan was to hike up Carrauntoohill, Ireland’s highest mountain at 1039m, via the Brother O’sheas Gully and back down what’s known as the zig zags. We had originally wanted to hike the challenging Coomloughra Horseshoe however…
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From the coast to the mountains | County Kerry, Ireland
Today we took a coast road that seemed to avoid the coast as much as possible which was strange, but we slowly made our way to Valentia Island. We drove all the way to Portmagee which seemed mostly shut down for the season, and then across a bridge to the island itself. Our first stop…
Wild hikes on the Dingle Peninsular | County Kerry, Ireland
We were really happy to be in County Kerry as it’s home to Ireland’s highest mountains. But before we hiked them we had plans to explore the Dingle Peninsular so we made our way south west. As we passed through the market town of Listowel we had to pull over because the buildings were so…
Hiking the Glencoaghan Horseshoe | Connemara, Ireland
Our plan for today was to hike along the Glencoaghan horseshoe which traverses 6 of the 12 Bens (mountains) and was due to take about 8 hours. We had to wake nice and early as we have limited day light hours during the winter and didn’t want to hike back in the dark. Unlike other…
Exploring the Doolough Valley | Ireland
A winding road led us through the cloud enshrouded Doolough valley with mountains on either side of us. As the road dipped down we headed towards the shores of Doo Lough lake. The road continued wiggling along the shores with the water right beside us. It was a really scenic area that felt untouched by…
Hiking across the highest cliffs in Ireland | Achill Island
Our first two days on Achill Island were spent waiting out some very rainy weather in our campervan. On day three we finally had some good weather forecasted so we woke up before the sun and drove across the island to the end of the road at Keem Bay. The road clung to the edge…
Exploring the north coast of County Mayo | Ireland
We started our explorations around County Mayo along the northern coast so we could see Downpatrick Head, a rugged rock pillar that rises straight out the sea. The cliffs around here are used for the red bull diving championships where divers hurl themselves off the 21m cliff at speeds of 85kmh. It was pretty horrendous…
The wild route to Slieve League Cliffs | Donegal, Ireland
A lot of people think Slieve League holds the trophy for the highest cliffs in Ireland but it turns out that it’s just a myth. Information online is rather cryptic and says things like ‘the highest, accessible, sea cliffs in Ireland’ regardless of their awards we were going to see what all the fuss what…
Mountain hikes and mighty waves | Exploring County Donegal, Ireland
We crossed the border into Ireland on a rainy day, which seemed rather fitting considering it’s said to rain 225 days a year. We were now in Europe which meant we were on the Euro but other than that we didn’t notice too many differences with the UK…but they really seemed to like their arcades…
Two days exploring Northern Ireland
We’ve wanted to visit Ireland for years but we put it on the back burner because it’s so close to home and ‘it will always be there’. I guess we like to explore more exotic places while we’re young and healthy but due to covid we’ve been reluctant to go further afield. After spending 4…
NON STOP TRAVELLING 